The "what-if" moment came at a lunch honoring powerful women, and hosted
by the women's magazine. Addressing the crowd, Klobuchar admitted that
she had once submitted an essay to Cosmo, but it didn't make the cut. "It did not happen," she said, according to Buzzfeed. "So then I decided to go to law school."

Klobuchar's speech included a taste of what that Cosmo
essay might have looked like, in the form of a riff on her relationships with exes. "I set the all-time Senate record -- I raised $17,000 from
ex-boyfriends," she said. (When Klobuchar told the same joke back in 2009, her punchline was that in the House, Barney Frank holds the record).